Annual Report 2005–06
The department: Outcome and output structure
This section describes the role and functions of the Department of Human Services (DHS). It describes the department’s outcome and output structure, and the corporate governance and financial arrangements that are common to the core department, the Child Support Agency (CSA) and CRS Australia.
Unless indicated otherwise, references in this document to the department mean the core department, CSA and CRS Australia.
The outcome of DHS is:
Effective and efficient delivery of social and health-related services, including financial assistance, to the Australian community.
At 30 June 2006, each of the organisations that constitute DHS produced one output to deliver DHS’ planned outcome. These are set out in Figure 3.
Figure 3 Department of Human Services outcome and output groups
